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Mac Arnold was born on 30 June, 1942 in Ware Place, South Carolina, United States, is an American blues musician (born 1942). Discover Mac Arnold's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Occupation Musician
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 30 June 1942
Birthday 30 June
Birthplace Ware Place, South Carolina, United States
Nationality United States

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1942

Mac Arnold (born June 30, 1942), is an American blues musician from South Carolina.

Mac Arnold was born in Ware Place, South Carolina, one of 13 children born and raised on his father's farm.

1950

Arnold's musical journey began in the 1950s when he and his brother Leroy fashioned a guitar from a steel gas can, broomsticks, wood, nails, and screen wire:

"Arnold, 72, laughs as he talks about how gas can guitars came about. One of those homemade guitars, the one most see him playing on stage, was leaning on a wall recently near his kitchen table in his Pelzer home.

Arnold's brother, Leroy, found a way to turn a gas can into a guitar when their father, Jodie Arnold, went to Florida to pick oranges.

'Dad wouldn't let him buy one (a guitar),' Mac Arnold said.

'So when he was about 15 years old, he figured out how to make one on his own.

We used to tie wire to the rafters in the barn, and we knew that made sound because of the tin roof.

You could hear it vibrate through the barn.'"

Arnold has since become famous for the gas-can guitar and has taught many other people how to make them.

His early career included working with a young James Brown in the band, J. Floyd & the Shamrocks.

1960

Mac's studio work in the 1960s includes playing bass on several notable blues albums, including Otis Spann's The Blues Is Where It's At and John Lee Hooker's Live At Cafe Au Go Go.

1965

Arnold moved to Chicago in 1965, where he worked with A.C. Reed prior to joining Muddy Waters' band in 1966.

1966

Arnold appears on the November 1966 live recording released in 2009 as Muddy Waters - Authorized Bootleg.

1967

He formed the Soul Invaders in 1967, finding work backing up B.B. King, The Temptations, Little Milton and many others.

1970

He performed in various session work after moving to California in the 1970s.

His TV work also included a four-year gig as part of the set band on Soul Train.

1990

By the 1990s, Arnold had grown weary of the road life and returned home to Pelzer, South Carolina and virtual retirement from the spotlight until 2006, when he was convinced to front his own band, Plate Full O' Blues.

Arnold's return to the stage was the subject of a 2-part musical-history documentary, Stan Woodward's final film, Nothing to Prove: Mac Arnold's Return to the Blues.

2013

In 2013, Arnold opened his own restaurant in Greenville, South Carolina's historic West End, where he hosted his popular yearly music event, The Cornbread and Collard Greens Blues Festival.

2017

Despite much local success in the food business, he decided to close the restaurant in August 2017 to once again concentrate on music, especially after his nomination into the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame.

On September 23, 2017, Mac Arnold was inducted into the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame at the historic Dr. John R. Drish House in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Mac Arnold was included in the 2021 edition of the South Carolina African American History Calendar.

Arnold and the band support the preservation of music education in public schools through the, "I Can Do Anything Foundation", an organization that was started following the release of a song by the same name, written by Mac Arnold and Max Hightower and performed by Plate full O' Blues.

With Otis Spann